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Groton Daily Independent
Friday, Oct. 27, 2017 ~ Vol. 25 - No. 110 ~ 47 of 48
WAS IT A CRIME TO DESTROY THE DATA?
That’s not clear. The plaintiffs’ local attorney sent an email July 10 to the defendants’ lawyers remind- ing them of their obligation to preserve electronic evidence. The case was later transferred from state to federal court. A Republican state representative, Scot Turner, called Thursday for a criminal investigation. It appears no judge was asked for an order mandating the preservation of evidence. So the defendants could not be held in contempt of court.
WHAT’S NEXT?
Legal briefs are due Oct. 30, after which Presiding Judge Amy Totenberg will weigh their motion to dismiss the case. Meantime, Georgia’s legislature has begun discussing replacing the state’s 15-year-old elections system with modern equipment that includes an auditable paper trail at an estimated cost of at least $100 million.
On Nov. 7, Conyers, Georgia, a city near Atlanta, will test new equipment that produces a paper trail in its local elections.
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Markets Right Now: Tech jumps, but indexes are mixed
NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in nancial markets (All times local):
9:40 a.m.
Stocks are mixed at the open thanks to solid quarterly earnings from technology companies as Microsoft,
Intel and Alphabet.
Investors also cheered a report Friday that showed the U.S. economy grew by a stronger than expected
3 percent in the third quarter.
Microsoft rose 7.9 percent and Alphabet, Google’s parent company, jumped 5.8 percent. Online retailer
Amazon soared 9.2 percent.
But major stock indexes were mixed as energy companies lost ground. Chevron lost 3.5 percent.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 index gained 6 points or 0.2 percent, to 2,567.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 38 points, or 0.2 percent, to 23,363. The Nasdaq composite is up
71 points, or 1 percent, to 6,629.
Today in History By The Associated Press
Today in History
Today is Friday, Oct. 27, the 300th day of 2017. There are 65 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Oct. 27, 1947, “You Bet Your Life,” a comedy quiz show starring Groucho Marx, premiered on ABC
Radio. (It later became a television show on NBC.)
On this date:
In 1787, the rst of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for rati cation of the United States
Constitution, was published.
In 1858, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, was born in New York City.
In 1880, Theodore Roosevelt married his rst wife, Alice Lee.
In 1886 (New Style date), the musical fantasy “A Night on Bald Mountain,” written by Modest Mussorgsky
(MOH’-dest muh-SAWRG’-skee) and revised after his death by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, was performed in St. Petersburg, Russia.
In 1922, the rst annual celebration of Navy Day took place.
In 1938, Du Pont announced a name for its new synthetic yarn: “nylon.”
In 1954, U.S. Air Force Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. was promoted to brigadier general, the rst black of-